It's a slow day at the end of too many holidays in series, counting
Solstice.
Pardon me for slacking off and getting way off track ...
I have asked three different map services for the location of a
restaurant
and gotten three different answers within a mile of each other. So I
called
the
Maybe we should cut these cartographers a little slack. When you consider
that Garmin will sell you a map update of the entire northern hemisphere for
eighty bucks, we perhaps shouldn't get too wadded up if they miss the exact
location of my little bungalow by a couple of hundred feet. After
My concern is a major industrril building complex and all the visitors
that get missdirected to the wrong end of a long road every day.
-John
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Maybe we should cut these cartographers a little slack. When you consider
that Garmin will sell you a map update of the entire
!!
-End of Rant-
73 es HNY, Dick, W1KSZ
-Original Message-
From: William H. Fite omni...@gmail.com
Sent: Dec 31, 2010 9:18 AM
To: Discussion of precise time and frequency measurement time-nuts@febo.com
Subject: [time-nuts] Problems with Garmin - maybe we should cut them a little
Subject: [time-nuts] Problems with Garmin - maybe we should cut them a
little slack
Maybe we should cut these cartographers a little slack. When you consider
that Garmin will sell you a map update of the entire northern hemisphere
for
eighty bucks, we perhaps shouldn't get too wadded up
Well, I won't rant back at you, Dick, but your expectations are way off
base. GPS cartographers have to designate billions (yes, billions) of
addresses and the fact that they miss a few scarcely justifies a backhand
brushoff as shoddy work.
Look at it another way:
They are producing one
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:18 AM, William H. Fite omni...@gmail.com wrote:
Maybe we should cut these cartographers a little slack. When you consider
that Garmin will sell you a map update of the entire northern hemisphere for
eighty bucks, we perhaps shouldn't get too wadded up if they miss
with Garmin - maybe we should cut them a
little slack
Well, I won't rant back at you, Dick, but your expectations are way off
base. GPS cartographers have to designate billions (yes, billions) of
addresses and the fact that they miss a few scarcely justifies a backhand
brushoff as shoddy work.
Look
Hmmm, sounds like the Microsoft model.
What did you expect for $100?
On 12/31/2010 12:49 PM, J. Forster wrote:
Well, I won't rant back at you, Dick, but your expectations are way off
base. GPS cartographers have to designate billions (yes, billions) of
addresses and the fact that they miss
Not only MS. Any product whose cost ofd production is trivial compared to
selling price.
Look at Coke... it's 99+% water. In some places it sells for $2/pint.
-John
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Hmmm, sounds like the Microsoft model.
What did you expect for $100?
On 12/31/2010 12:49 PM, J. Forster
Since we're already having an OT flamefest about garmin, I'd like to point
out openstreetmap (OSM):
http://www.openstreetmap.org/?lat=36.38671875lon=-93.251953125zoom=4
which is a world-wide wiki-style editable map. In some places, it's
more accurate than navteq and teleatlas, but it is
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